“There’s A Change That’s A’Comin!”
Words and lyrics by Gray Cox 2014 shared under a Creative Commons License gray@coa.edu, breathonthewater.com
PART 1: There’s a change that’s a comin (3x) . . . soon
And it’s comin’ like a hurricane
comin’ like a drought
And it’s comin’ like a glacier melting . . . (mouth clicks as water drops)
PART 2 : Cause we know it’s gonna be, gonna be at least 2 degrees (3x) . . . soon
And they say it may be much more (3x) . . . than 2
But we all, we all, won’t let it
Cause we all, we all, finally get it
And we all, we all, are gonna make a change!!!!
PART 3: Like the nineteenth century end of slavery
-- we’ll end fossil fuel dependency!
Like the fall of the Berlin Wall -- we’’ll make a change!
Like an old time spiritual revival -- Or a youtube video gone viral!
With a billion of us on bicycles -- make a change!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Cut by half our material consumption -- Invest in real creative destruction!
Start a political eruption -- make a change!
With piles of political donations – campaigning door to door in conversations,
We’ll take back the governments of our nations -- make a change!
PART 4: Yes there’s a change that’s a comin (3x) . . . soon!
Cause we’re comin’, comin’ like a hurricane!
We’re comin’, comin’ like a hurricane!
We’re comin’, comin’ like a hurricane! Soon!!
Yes! We’re comin’, comin’ like a hurricane!
We’re comin’, comin’ like a hurricane!
We’re comin’, comin’ like a hurricane! Soon!!
RHYTHM INTERLUDE
PART 2 : Cause we know it’s gonna be, gonna be at least 2 degrees (3x) . . . soon
And they say it may be much more (3x) . . . than 2
But we all, we all, won’t let it
Cause we all, we all, finally get it
And we all, we all, are gonna make a change!!!!
PART 3: Like the nineteenth century end of slavery
-- we’ll end fossil fuel dependency!
Like the fall of the Berlin Wall -- we’’ll be the change we want to see!
Like an old time spiritual revival -- Or a youtube video gone viral!
With a billion of us on bicycles -- be the change we want to see!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Cut by half our material consumption -- Invest in real creative destruction!
Start a political eruption – make a change!
With piles of political donations – campaigning door to door in conversations,
We’ll take back the governments of our nations – and be the change we want to see!
PART 1: There’s a change that’s a comin (3x) . . . soon
And it’s comin’ like a hurricane
comin’ like a drought
And it’s comin’ like a glacier melting . . . (make mouth clicks for water drops)
PART 4: There’s a change that’s a comin (3x) . . . soon
Cause We’re comin’, comin’ like a hurricane!
We’re comin’, comin’ like a hurricane!
We’re comin’, comin’ like a hurricane! Soon!!
Yes! We’re comin’, comin’ like a hurricane!
We’re comin’, comin’ like a hurricane!
We’re comin’, comin’ like a hurricane! Soon!! Two! Three! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
credits
from Just Down the Road a' Peace,
released October 11, 2015
This song was recorded live at Gates Auditorium in October, 2014 with the participation of Los Huracanes who included:
Gray Cox, Shlomit Auciello, Molly B Samuels, Sergio Cahueque
Julie Bowser, Galen Hecht, Adrian Fernandez Jauregui
Christi Beddiges, Elaina Burress, Aneesa Khan
Kendall Cook, Andrew Nguyen, Haleigh Paquette, Ivy Enoch
Josephine Trople, Emma Kimball, Soleil Pacetti
Seth Wegner, Eloise Schultz, Angela Valenzuela
Gray is a singer/songwriter who plays bones and guitar. He is a parent, grandparent, Quaker and philosopher. He teaches at
College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine is a co-founder of the Quaker Institute for the Future, and works on issues of peace and human ecology. His blog, combining music and social commentary is at breathonthewater.com. ...more
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